Monitoring an operating cycle of heavy equipment

Abstract

A method and system are provided for monitoring operations of heavy equipment having an operating implement configured to excavate a load from a mine face. The method involves: capturing a plurality of images during an operating cycle of the heavy equipment; processing the plurality of images through an activity classifier model, the activity classifier model including a neural network having been configured and trained for generating an activity label based on a sequence of images in the plurality of images, the activity label associating the sequence of images with at least one stage of a plurality of stages making up the operating cycle; and performing at least one analysis using the sequence of images associated with the at least one stage, the at least one analysis including an analysis of the operating implement, an analysis of the load, and/or an analysis of the mine face.